FEATURES:

• D.I.Y kit pool
• Lightweight and strong
• Flexibility in design
• Thermal insulation
• Flexibility copes with movement and stress
• Easy to handle and place
• Increase safety for workers
• Cost effective
• Non-corrosive
• Durable and tough
• Environmentally Friendly

Flexible Pool Shells:

Soils that include large amounts of clay are subject to constant movement as they swell and shrink with changes in moisture content, other soils such as sand, move and settle due to the non-binding nature of the soil particles. Structures such as swimming pools must be constructed to adequately cope with these movements, either by being made so rigid that they resist a force applied to them, or by being designed to allow a very limited amount of flexing to take place without allowing undesired distortion. The large number of cracked reinforced concrete pools testifies to the difficulty of constructing watertight rigid shells capable of resisting all soil movements.

The Polystyrene Shell pool shell system is designed to allow minor flexing to take place without allowing undue distortion. The shell provides far more than adequate strength to resist pressures from the surrounding soil: even when there is no water in the pool.

The Aqualux finish provides a strong waterproof membrane that is unaffected by any minor flexing.

Under normal loading conditions, when the soil is back-filled around an Polystyrene Shell pool under construction, the shell flexes slightly as the reinforcing mesh and concrete take up the load, this small amount of movement can only be detected by taking accurate measurements.

Following backfilling, an engineer specified reinforced concrete ring beam and steel tie backs, are poured around the top of the pool shell, and a concrete floor is poured to provide absolute stability. A smooth finishing render is also applied to the inside of the pool: following this it is unlikely that any further noticeable flexing will occur